2 POLICEMEN SENTENCED IN ROSTOV-ON-DON.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, - Police Lieutenant Alexander
Aigumov and his colleague, Captain Sergei Oksenchuk, have been
sentenced to three and four years of imprisonment correspondingly for
the abuse of office, the illegal entry of apartments, robbery,
battery, bribe-taking and narcotic drugs storage, sources at the
Rostov police told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

Paradoxically, the crimes were committed in the "Order" operation and
exposed by a hardened criminal.

Last August the police officers detained the ex-convict in
Rostov-on-Don. They searched the ex-con's apartment without a warrant
and found narcotic drugs. The drugs and money were taken away by the
policemen, the ex-convict was battered and offered the annulment of
his detention protocol for 400 rubles. The man decided to turn for
help to the Main Interior Department of the Rostov region and the
arrest of the policemen followed.